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We, the citizens of Washington, Orange, Cra-wford and Harrison
counties, at Ilardinsburgli, assembled witliout respect to party, do
hereby dechire our devotion to the Union of these States, and our
fixed determination to malie all the sacrifice of personal opinion to
maintain the Union that duty or patriotism may demand, or that
honor or manhood will allow, and believing that the time for action
has now come, and that our duty requires us to address ourselves to
the consideration of some plan of settlement that can be sustained
by public sentiment at the North, and that will receive favor and be
accepted by the South; therefore,
Besolved, That we are for maintaining the Union, opposei'' to co-ercion,
and deny the right of secession; for preserving peac nos-sible,
and we are constrained to believe that South Carolina, oJs-sippi,
and their neighboring States, that have seceded and are ma«^'ng
arrangements to secede, have acted rashly and unwisely, under the
influence of bad counsel; that all the evils justly and properly com-plained
of by the South, can be and ought to be remedied without
destroying the Government.
Eesolved, That to show to our Southern brethren that we arc de-termined
in the sight of heaven that the awful responsibilities of
destroying the best govenunent on earth, and drenching the land
^Yith fraternal blood, shall not rest Avith us ; therefore, we pledge our-selves
individually and unitedly, without mental reservation or self
evasion Avhatever, to support to the letter and spirit, and to assist
with all our influence, in carrying into effect the resolutions off"ered as
a basis of compromise by the Hon. John J. Crittenden of Kentucky,
in the Senate of the United States, believing these resolutions can
and will bo sustained Ijy the masses of the people of the free States,
in spite of what politicians may say or do; and that if so the South
ought not to hesitate to shake hands on these resolutions as a basis of
final settlement.
Resolved, That it is our opinion that if the border free and slave
States come up unitedly in favor of this plan of settlement that sooner
or later, the extremes must of necessity follow.
Besolved, That it is our ardent desire that the happy relationship
long existing between Indiana and Kentucky, socially and commer-cially,
shall not be destroyed by madness or folly, Init that the citi-zens
of Indiana may always be as ready to grant and defend all the
rights of Kentucky as was the sons of Kentucky to come to the de-fense
of Indiana, when her citizens required defense from the scalping
knife of the merciless savages in the Avar of 1811, when Jo. Daviess
and his gallant companions in arms poured out their blood on the
memorable plains of Tippecanoe, in common with our own citizens.
^ Resolved, That notwithstanding we may have differed in many re-

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We, the citizens of Washington, Orange, Cra-wford and Harrison
counties, at Ilardinsburgli, assembled witliout respect to party, do
hereby dechire our devotion to the Union of these States, and our
fixed determination to malie all the sacrifice of personal opinion to
maintain the Union that duty or patriotism may demand, or that
honor or manhood will allow, and believing that the time for action
has now come, and that our duty requires us to address ourselves to
the consideration of some plan of settlement that can be sustained
by public sentiment at the North, and that will receive favor and be
accepted by the South; therefore,
Besolved, That we are for maintaining the Union, opposei'' to co-ercion,
and deny the right of secession; for preserving peac nos-sible,
and we are constrained to believe that South Carolina, oJs-sippi,
and their neighboring States, that have seceded and are ma«^'ng
arrangements to secede, have acted rashly and unwisely, under the
influence of bad counsel; that all the evils justly and properly com-plained
of by the South, can be and ought to be remedied without
destroying the Government.
Eesolved, That to show to our Southern brethren that we arc de-termined
in the sight of heaven that the awful responsibilities of
destroying the best govenunent on earth, and drenching the land
^Yith fraternal blood, shall not rest Avith us ; therefore, we pledge our-selves
individually and unitedly, without mental reservation or self
evasion Avhatever, to support to the letter and spirit, and to assist
with all our influence, in carrying into effect the resolutions off"ered as
a basis of compromise by the Hon. John J. Crittenden of Kentucky,
in the Senate of the United States, believing these resolutions can
and will bo sustained Ijy the masses of the people of the free States,
in spite of what politicians may say or do; and that if so the South
ought not to hesitate to shake hands on these resolutions as a basis of
final settlement.
Resolved, That it is our opinion that if the border free and slave
States come up unitedly in favor of this plan of settlement that sooner
or later, the extremes must of necessity follow.
Besolved, That it is our ardent desire that the happy relationship
long existing between Indiana and Kentucky, socially and commer-cially,
shall not be destroyed by madness or folly, Init that the citi-zens
of Indiana may always be as ready to grant and defend all the
rights of Kentucky as was the sons of Kentucky to come to the de-fense
of Indiana, when her citizens required defense from the scalping
knife of the merciless savages in the Avar of 1811, when Jo. Daviess
and his gallant companions in arms poured out their blood on the
memorable plains of Tippecanoe, in common with our own citizens.
^ Resolved, That notwithstanding we may have differed in many re-